Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From California to Manhattan went eleven women, aged 61 to 75, to appear as showgirls at Billy Rose's famed Casa Mariana. Billed as "The Elderblooms," the old girls shag, truck, sing Flat Foot Floogie...
...aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next week, that by next summer Colorado River water would start pouring into Cajalco Reservoir, thence to Los Angeles and twelve other thirsty California towns...
...William Schmidt staked 24 gold, silver and copper claims in a remote part of California's Black Mountain. The ore veins looked rich, but miles of costly road would have been needed to get the ore around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper...
Bronzed, able-bodied Clark Wyly, 28, has as much claim as anyone to the title of "typical U. S. seaman." Texas-born, he. took to the Navy as soon as the law allowed. After a six-year hitch he signed as an able seaman on the Panama Pacific liner California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed...
...Ballard and harp, custodians of the most cockeyed California cult of all-The Mighty I AM Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration...